Posts by Nickolas

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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

many of us needed time to get away from this religion.

i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.

after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.

Nickolas

Preparing myself for the worst, I wondered what the hell I was going to tell my children, trying to explain to them that yes, their mother had died over peer pressure to conform to a ludicrous belief system that neither of us believed in, but just went along with.

I'm incredulous. What I'm reading is you and your wife didn't believe in it yet your wife put her life in danger because of peer pressure and you went along with it. I am probably missing something, TC. I am assuming the hospital asked about using blood and the two of you said "No". Did everything just happen so fast that you found yourselves in a situation without having had the time to think about how stupid you were both being? I'm not trying to be critical, because I think your story is a good example of cognitive dissonance and mind control at work. There must be many Jehovah's Witnesses among the 7 million who know in their hearts that the Watchtower is crap but who just don't want to think about it, or are forced to think about it only when the really ugly stuff gets personal.

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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

many of us needed time to get away from this religion.

i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.

after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.

Nickolas

Thank you, unshackled. That is my understanding, too. I was just puzzling over what was written in the previous post. I've never read before in here a former Jehovah's Witness say he or she was disassociated without notice.

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Jehovah's Witnesses: A family conversion

by discreetslave in

another piece on the joys of witnesshood.. http://heraldsun.com/bookmark/14860998/article-jehovah%27s+witnesses%3a+a+family+conversion#.tj2jip7llug.

unky punk is this swarm potential?.

Nickolas

I need some gravol.

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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

many of us needed time to get away from this religion.

i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.

after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.

Nickolas

Point of clarification. I'm still learning the Watchtower vernacular. I was under the impression that an individual disassociates but the society disfellowships. Does the society also disassociate?

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Can I Please Just Say...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

that it's "jewel-ry"... and not "joo-lery" (may you all have peace!)?

i know, i know... very small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.

but, dang, if you're gonna host a television jewelry show, shouldn't you at least be able to say "jewelry"?

Nickolas

Yes, the telephone can be off the hook, too, because the original telephone receivers were literally suspended on a hook. I think that was the origin of the other meaning, not connected with the wrongdoing. To be "off the hook" is to be disconnected.

Ain't linguistics grand?

Got to get to bed. Up early to go fishing tomorrow. Sometimes the fish get off the hook, too. Maybe that was the original idiom? Good night.

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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

many of us needed time to get away from this religion.

i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.

after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.

Nickolas

If you can do what you love to do and get paid for it, then it's a no brainer, Awen.

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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

many of us needed time to get away from this religion.

i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.

after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.

Nickolas

I'm 41 now.

Man, I wish I was 41 again. You still have time.

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previous infidelities ..what to do now?

by FriendofJW911 in

Nickolas

Highlight and save your text before you hit the Submitbutton. Sometimes, not often, the editor is glitchy and having your post in the buffer before you submit it will save you from typing it all up again if it crashes on you.

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Can I Please Just Say...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

that it's "jewel-ry"... and not "joo-lery" (may you all have peace!)?

i know, i know... very small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.

but, dang, if you're gonna host a television jewelry show, shouldn't you at least be able to say "jewelry"?

Nickolas

to be off the hook in my part of the world is no longer to be on the hotseat - ie accountable for some wrongdoing. As in, "Ok, Bugsy, you're off the hook this time, but be careful to keep your nose clean." (Do I have to explain what keeping one's nose clean means?)

It gets even worse when you switch languages. Here in Canada, if you ask a question to a French speaker that he can't answer, he will more likely than not shrug his shoulders and say "Je donne ma langue au chat" which translates directly in English to "I give my tongue to the cat." Figure that out.

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Identifying God and true religion

by Terry in

there is no doctrine required for kindness.. you can't get it "wrong".

there is no judgement.. there is nothing to memorize when putting your hand out to a suffering person.

the human touch on a fevered brow and the comforting squeeze of the hand is irrefutable.. you don't have to graduate from a seminary to offer a smile and ask somebody how they are---how they really are.. there are no grounds for debate or rebuttal in visiting the ill, the dying, the widowed or the orphaned.. .

Nickolas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWdG8NoFXY0